This whole "is RI dying" question has me returning to something that, I believe it was, Chiggerbit pointed out - it seems likely that RI attracted the attention of *someone* important who didn't like what was happening here. Why? Because of the daily focus on RA/MC. Let's go with that.
I say, lets raise the stakes and start burrowing down that rabbit hole ever more seriously until we spring out of the ground smack dab in the middle of the dominant reality with something to pass around and a way to spread the word.
So far we have multitudinous bits and pieces, survivor's stories, provocative lines in CIA memos, a questionable cottage industry, and more.
How would you put it all together? How would you theorize RA/MC?
My best and partly personally informed guess goes something like this:
RA (speaking here of "private" RA as distinct from the form that exists in the intelligence community) exists as its own subculture. Bearing some resemblance to the old KKK in its ability to be hidden in plain view. It is comprised of cells that are largely independent of one another. They draw on the same techniques and inspiration. Chief among the latter is a reverence for the Man-Boy love of antiquity. The former is a refined art form. CIA research into DID, NLP, got leaked onto the black market at some point and has been studied and adopted here. The vetting process to join is arduous. Like child pornographers on the internet, a new member must offer up proof of his commitment. How are new members chosen? Presumably by being men of power and prestige. Somewhere within there is a rather pompous note of doing as the Greeks did - molesting boys (and girls).
Members have a series of safe places. Many have a converted room in their home (recall the Austrian sociopath who enslaved his daughter in a secret basement apartment). Others have access, by social positioning, to all-purpose spaces (church, farm, etc) that are private at night.
Thoughts?
